Kakashi: A Moment of Silence for This Kid's Future Jonin Instructor

The next day, Naruto appeared in Riverside Grove again.

He had simply used a Space Gate to get there.

He stood before a large tree and started pounding it. Bang! Bang! Bang!

The moment the Third Hokage arrived at the Hokage Building, he wanted to check on Naruto's training for the day. But when he activated the Crystal Ball, he found that the kid was hugging another tree.

This gave the Third Hokage a terrible headache.

He rubbed his temples, his mind filled with the scene from yesterday's fight against Uchiha Sasuke, when Naruto had used Random Wild Fists.

Oh no!

He had let the kid win once yesterday...

Did the kid really think he had learned something from punching trees?!

Thinking of how Naruto had successfully refined Chakra and spent three days painstakingly learning the Clone Technique, the Third Hokage didn't know how to describe how he felt.

If you called this kid a genius...

What kind of ninja practiced the Clone Technique tens of thousands of times?

But if you called him stupid...

He had somehow learned the basic Clone Technique in just three days.

The Clone Technique wasn't difficult... but ordinary children who had just started out would need at least a week to master it!

The only difference between them was that Naruto possessed far more Chakra than other ninjas.

If it weren't for the enormous amount of Chakra within Naruto, his training method would have drained him dry and killed him long ago.

And now, the Third Hokage was worried that the kid had gone back to desperately training taijutsu.

Judging by his unsteady footwork while punching, he probably wasn't even bringing out half his strength.

Yet he was still training himself to death every single day...

Every time the Third Hokage glanced at the image in the Crystal Ball, the veins on his forehead throbbed once.

In the end, he simply shut off the Telescope Technique. Out of sight, out of mind.

But he was genuinely afraid Naruto might hurt himself, so the Third Hokage gave the Anbu an order.

"Have Might Guy and Kakashi come see me."

"Yes, Third Hokage!"

Bang—

Naruto's thoughts wandered as his hands continuously struck the tree trunk.

Ever since Naruto had come here, the surface of this tree had visibly caved in.

Every punch Naruto threw sent wood chips flying.

Before long, Naruto would probably need a new training tool.

Not far away, Might Guy and Kakashi watched Naruto's every move.

After watching for around half an hour, the two of them had headaches just like the Third Hokage.

"Guy, if that kid keeps training like this, he'll cripple himself, won't he?"

"Uh... although it's incredibly passionate, without the correct training method, he really won't make it to the point where he can burn with youth."

Watching the child's utterly misguided training method made Might Guy's hands itch.

When he had first heard the Third Hokage say that there was a child in the village training diligently, Might Guy had been extremely excited.

He had even considered taking the child as his disciple.

However...

The Third Hokage had told him that the child was the Nine-Tailed Jinchuriki, the Fourth Hokage's orphan.

The moment Might Guy heard that, he fell silent.

Though he valued passion, his brain wasn't made entirely of muscle.

If he took the village's Nine-Tailed Jinchuriki as his disciple, the Third Hokage would definitely tear him apart.

Moreover, the Third Hokage had specifically stressed that they were only to give the Nine-Tailed Jinchuriki a little guidance on his incorrect taijutsu training methods. Under no circumstances were they to make the kid interested in taijutsu.

As Kakashi looked at Naruto's small figure, the image of his teacher surfaced in his mind. At that moment, the two figures overlapped.

He looked a little longer and felt his nose sting.

Emotions that had been sealed away for a long time surged up once more.

It was all because his teacher was gone...

Without anyone to guide him, this child had ended up training so recklessly...

The two exchanged a glance and nodded at the same time. Then, they walked along the main road, pretending to be passing by.

Neither of them approached Naruto directly. To follow the Third Hokage's instructions, they had to play the part of jonin skilled in taijutsu who happened upon a hard-training boy, then offered him guidance after he asked them for it.

However, they passed by the kid ten times, back and forth, without drawing his attention at all.

It was as though all of the kid's focus had burrowed into the tree before him.

In truth, Naruto had noticed the two of them long ago.

One had white hair, and the other had a Green Watermelon Rind on his head. Their traits were so obvious that it was impossible not to notice them.

If these two weren't Kakashi and Might Guy, then Naruto Uzumaki would eat the tree in front of him.

They had passed by him several times in a row, looking as though they had something on their minds. It took no thought to know that the Third Hokage had sent them.

As for their purpose...

He didn't know yet.

The two kept pacing back and forth in front of him, and Naruto was getting seriously annoyed.

"Hey! You two old men, what exactly do you want?"

"Can you stop walking back and forth in front of me?"

"I still need to train!"

Might Guy and Kakashi both twitched their mouths at Naruto's words.

Training, my ass??

Look at the hole he had punched into that tree, then look at the way he threw his punches...

Kid, are you sure you aren't chopping down a tree??

Still, both of them were shocked by Naruto's freakish physique...

This kid was only six years old!!

With such an incorrect punching stance, he had nearly smashed an entire tree to the ground.

Neither of them could have done that when they were Naruto's age!

Even Might Guy, a taijutsu fanatic, had never dared to train himself so brutally as a child.

If someone punched barehanded like that for an entire day, their hands would probably be ruined by the next day. They could forget about becoming a ninja after that.

They had heard the Third Hokage say it before...

The Nine-Tailed Jinchuriki had been pounding trees here for several days already...